Family Conflict Definition

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Gary L. Hansen (1991) discussed two basic factors for increasing work family conflict i.e. increase in female workforce and single parenthood. Both factors lead to increase work overload due to multiple roles among family members. They have too much to do and too little time in which to do the work both paid work & unpaid household work. Mothers of preschoolers faced this problem frequently. According to the study, the major problems experienced by employed family members fall into seven categories: Child care, Elder care, work time, relocation, job autonomy & job demands, supervisory relationships and supportive organizational culture.
12- Gary D Hansen; “Balancing work & family: A literature and resources review” family relations; 40:3 …show more content…

To inform guidelines for the development of university work and family related, personnel policies. Different variables like child care, elder care, marital status, spouse support, spouse job difficulties social support from co-worker, dissatisfaction with resources and perceive unfair criticisms were studied. The results indicated that difficulties in caring for children and elderly dependents are the primary causes of work and family role strain in the family domain while dissatisfaction with resource and perceived unfair criticism are primary in work domain. The predictor of work and family role stain are similar for faculty and staff and for men and women with one exception having supportive spouse or partner reduces work and family role strain much more for women than it does for men. Further it was suggested by the author that universities must pay need to work and family condition when tailoring their work and family …show more content…

Employees can enjoy better Work Life Balance through combining professional career with childcare and elder care responsibilities. Whereas employers can enjoy improved recruitment and retention rate, less labour costs etc. Study found that full benefits of this system was not being realized because of no substantial change in work structure, under utilization of skilled workforce, less bargaining power of part time workers etc. n-174 Christine Edwards; olive robinson; “evaluating the business case for parttime working amongst qualified nurse; “british journal of industrial relation; 42:1, march 2004 pp

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